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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 17.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2015 Aug;52(4):1121–1146. doi: 10.1007/s13524-015-0411-4

Table 4.

Odds ratios for unidentifiable father at birth

All Births Nonmarital Births Nonresident Births
Male Child 1.05 (0.05) 1.09 (0.05) 0.91 (0.08)
Child’s Birth Order 0.82*** (0.02) 0.79*** (0.02) 0.89*** (0.03)
Mother’s Age 0.98*** (0.01) 0.95*** (0.01) 1.07*** (0.01)
Mother’s Education 1.06*** (0.01) 1.08*** (0.01) 0.99 (0.01)
Mother’s Occupation (unemployed)
 Agriculture 0.44*** (0.02) 0.30*** (0.02) 2.08*** (0.24)
 Employed 1.73*** (0.12) 1.58*** (0.11) 1.74*** (0.25)
Wealth Quintile (lowest)
 Low 0.65*** (0.05) 0.66*** (0.06) 0.77 (0.12)
 Middle 0.69*** (0.05) 0.66*** (0.05) 0.91 (0.13)
 High 0.70*** (0.05) 0.71*** (0.06) 0.84 (0.12)
 Highest 0.53*** (0.04) 0.51*** (0.04) 0.89 (0.13)
Coresident Adults 1.32*** (0.01) 1.32*** (0.01) 1.13*** (0.02)
Children 14,019 14,437 14,437
Absent Fathers 6,143 5,333 810
Pseudo-R2 .20 .27 .04

Notes: Results are from logistic regression models. Robust standard errors, including weights for sibship size, are shown in parentheses.

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p < .001